People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

The time for change is now.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.